London's Strangest Tales - Extraordinary But True Tales: from over a Thousand Years of London's History

Cover
 Title Page
 Copyright
 Acknowledgment
 Contents
 Introduction
 Why Part of Scotland Is in London (950)
 Put Out Your Fire (1066)
 The Bishop of Winchester\'s Geese (1171)
 Squabbling Churchmen (1176)
 Human Lavatory (1190)
 The Right to Be Hanged by Silk (1237)
 How Bedlam Got Its Name (1250)
 A Piece of Cambridgeshire in London (1290)
 Boars\' Heads and Frankincense (1300)
 How the Women Beat the Lawyers (1314)
 A Stream Flows at Westminster (1360)
 Planning for Centuries Ahead (1399)
 The Curse of Centre Point (1417)
 Gropecunt Lane (1450)
 Why We Say Sixes and Sevens (1490). The House that Shakespeare Knew (1501)Robbing Peter to Pay Paul (1540)
 Burning Heretics (1555)
 Vanished Dungeons Reappear (1556)
 Cash for Waterborne Bodies (1556)
 The Queen\'s Bosom on Show (1597)
 John Stow\'s Quill Pen (1605)
 London\'s Only Man-made River (1606)
 Derrick\'s Death Crane (1610)
 John Donne, Undone (1631)
 A Church the Wrong Way Round (1631)
 Poet Buried Standing Up (1637)
 A Square of Wonders (1641)
 The Stone Monument that Weeps (1652)
 Strangled Hares for Kidney Stones (1658)
 Why Teachers Have to Be Better Than the King (1660)
 A Monarch on the Scrapheap (1660). How to Avoid Debt in The Mall (1661)The Governor of Duck Island (1665)
 Where to Get Your Coat of Arms (1666)
 Yeoman of the Mouth (1669)
 The Church that Inspired a Cake (1672)
 How the Royal Mistress Got Her Way (1675)
 The Ultimate Celebrity Street (1675)
 A Quack on Tower Hill (1680)
 A Pitched Battle with the Lawyers (1684)
 The Field of the Forty Steps (1687)
 A Mousetrap on the Head (1690)
 When Prison Marriages Were All the Rage (1697)
 The Board of the Green Cloth (1698)
 Pig Fat and Face Powder (1700)
 Short Temper, Extravagant Habits (1705)
 Buried with His Books (1705). The Candle-stub Seller (1707)St Mary in the Roadway (1712)
 Dog Latin (1715)
 A Bank with a Woolly Mammoth (1717)
 The Church that Went to America (1724)
 The Meanest Man in Southwark (1730)
 Castrated Singers (1735)
 Going to Knightsbridge by Boat (1736)
 Mad Mayfair Marriages (1742)
 Air Bathing in Craven Street (1757)
 The Cockney Courtesan with a Sweet Tooth (1760)
 Highland Soil in Westminster (1760)
 How London Got Its Pavements (1761)
 The World\'s Oldest Hatmakers (1764)
 Why Actors Say \'Break a Leg!\' (1766)
 Byron Gets Burned (1768)
 Modern Bridge, Medieval Money (1769). Obsessed by Snuff (1776)Cockney Maori Chief (1777)
 How the Bristol Hotel Got Its Name (1778)
 Children for Sale (1778)
 Eighteenth-Century Viagra (1779)
 Beau Brummel\'s Blue Nose (1794)
 Betting on Cats (1795)
 Nelson\'s Second-hand Tomb (1804)
 The Mole that Killed a King (1806)
 World\'s First Gaslight (1807)
 Biggest Practical Joker (1809)
 The Dirtiest Pub in London (1809)
 A Mistress\'s Revenge (1809)
 Which Side Are You On? (1811)
 Napoleon\'s Soap on Show (1816)
 How to Stop Dead Cats Flying (1819)
 The Greatest Legal Scandal of All (1819).